Decision Framework1 book · 2 highlights

Small Detail Decides Great Events

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Evidence

Napoleon by Andrew Roberts — book cover

Napoleon

Andrew Roberts · 2 highlights

  1. “‘There is but one step from triumph to downfall. I have seen, in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.’ Napoleon to Talleyrand, October 1797”

  2. “‘There is a moment in combat when the slightest manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority; it is the drop of water that starts the overflow.’ Napoleon on Caesar at the battle of Munda”

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